Research and Projects

Externally Funded Research Projects

• PI, Department of Energy, "Enhancing Hydropower Market Participation by Leveraging Advanced Modeling, Optimization, and Water Management for Increased Flexibility" (Under Award Negotiation), $750,000, 07/2025-06/2027

• PI, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, "CAREER: A Multi-faceted Framework to Enable Computationally Efficient Evaluation and Automatic Design for Large-scale Economics-driven Transmission Planning", $500,000, 09/2024-08/2029

• Missouri S&T PI, DoD Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), "Model-Free Adaptive Control (MFAC) for Autonomous and Resilient Microgrids", $700,000, 5/2020-4/2024 (with Jonathan Kimball, and Fangxing Li of University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• Missouri S&T PI, Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative (EIPC), "High Renewables Future Study", $226,110, 6/23/2020-8/31/2022 (with Xiaokang Xu of S&C Electric Company)

• PI, Department of Energy, "Modeling and Optimizing Pumped Storage in a Multi-stage Large Scale Electricity Market under Portfolio Evolution" , $999,554, 8/2019-8/2021 (with Yonghong Chen of Mid-continent Independent System Operator, Lei Wu of Stevens Institute of Technology, Ross Baldick of University of Texas at Austin)

• Co-PI, Department of Energy, "Enabling Extreme Fast Charging with Energy Storage", $2,915,377, 10/2018-9/2023 (with Jonathan Kimball, Mehdi Ferdowsi, Pourya Shamsi, Robert Landers, Jonghyun Park)

• Co-PI, National Science Foundation, "CPS: TTP Option: Medium: Collaborative Research: Trusted CPS from Untrusted Components", $962,695, 10/2018-09/2022 (with Bruce McMillin and Jonathan Kimball)

• PI, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award, "Agent-based Anti-gaming Platform for Wholesale Electricity Market Monitoring and Rule Design Using Big Data Analytics and Computational Intelligence", $377,796, 07/2018-07/2021